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Djuna Barnes
Deborah C. Parsons
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Description for Djuna Barnes
Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work S. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 184.
Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she remains a unique and idiosyncratic figure, unassimilated by models of American expatriate or Sapphic modernism. In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Barnes's oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the Ladies Almanack, and her late play The Antiphon, as well as her modernist classic Nightwood. She explores the psychological and stylistic aspect of Barnes's work through close ... Read more
Djuna Barnes once described herself as one of the most famous unknowns of the century. Revisionary accounts of female modernist writers have re-awakened interest in her work, yet she remains a unique and idiosyncratic figure, unassimilated by models of American expatriate or Sapphic modernism. In this illuminating and lucid study, Deborah Parsons examines the range of Barnes's oeuvre; her early journalism, short stories and one act dramas, poetry, the family chronicle Ryder, the Ladies Almanack, and her late play The Antiphon, as well as her modernist classic Nightwood. She explores the psychological and stylistic aspect of Barnes's work through close ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Series
Writers & Their Work
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746309445
SKU
V9780746309445
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About Deborah C. Parsons
Deborah L. Parsons is lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of Streetwalking the Metropolis: Women, the City and Modernity. (Oxford University Press, 2000)
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